Christopher Hibbert

Arthur Raymond Hibbert (5 Mart 1924 – 21 Aralık 2008), Christopher Hibbert olarak bilinen, İngiliz yazar, popüler tarihçi ve biyografi yazarıdır. "Biyografi yazarlarının incisi" (New Statesman) ve "muhtemelen çağımızın en çok okunan popüler tarihçisi ve şüphesiz en üretkenlerinden biri" (The Times) olarak adlandırılmıştır.

Hayatı
Arthur Raymond Hibbert, 1924 yılında Leicestershire, Enderby'de, Rahip H. V. Hibbert (ö. 1980) ve eşi Maude'un oğlu olarak dünyaya geldi. Üç çocuktan ikincisiydi ve Arthur Raymond adıyla vaftiz edildi. Oxfordshire'daki Abingdon-on-Thames yakınlarındaki bir erkek yatılı okulu olan Radley Koleji'nde eğitim gördükten sonra Oxford Üniversitesi'ndeki Oriel Koleji'ne gitti. Royal Society of Literature Üyesiydi.

Kişisel hayatı
Hibbert, Oxfordshire'daki Henley-on-Thames'te yaşıyordu ve Ordu ve Donanma Kulübü ile Garrick Kulübü üyesiydi. Susan Piggford ile evliydi ve çiftin edebi vasiyetini yerine getiren Kate Hibbert, televizyon yazarı Jimmy Hibbert ve müzik gazetecisi Tom Hibbert olmak üzere üç çocukları oldu.

21 Aralık 2008'de Henley'de 84 yaşında bronşiyal zatürreden ölmüştür. 2 Ocak 2009'da Oxford'da hümanist bir törenin ardından yakılmıştır.

Çalışmaları
The Road to Tyburn: The Story of Jack Sheppard and the Eighteenth Century Underworld (Longmans, 1957)
King Mob: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780 (Longmans, 1958)
Wolfe at Quebec (Longmans, 1959)
Corunna (B. T. Batsford, 1961)
The Destruction of Lord Raglan (Longmans, 1961)
Benito Mussolini. A Biography (Longmans, 1962) reprinted as Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce (St Martin's Griffin, 2008; Foreword by Tobias Jones)
The Battle of Arnhem (B. T. Batsford, 1962)
The Roots of Evil: A Social History of Crime and Punishment (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963)
Agincourt (B. T. Batsford, 1964)
The Wheatley Diary: A Journal and Sketch-book kept during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign (Longmans, 1964) editor
The Court at Windsor. A Domestic History (Longmans, 1964) later revised
Garibaldi and His Enemies (Longmans, 1965)
The Making of Charles Dickens (HarperCollins, 1967)
Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Campaign (New English Library, 1967)
Highwaymen (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967) "Pageant of History" series
Charles I (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968)
An American in Regency England: The Journal of a Tour in 1810-1811; by Louis Simond (Robert Maxwell, 1968) editor
London: The Biography of a City (Longmans, Green & Co., 1969)
The Grand Tour (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969)
The Search for King Arthur (Cassell, 1969) reprinted as King Arthur (Tempus, 2007)
The Dragon Wakes: China and the West, 1793-1911 (Longmans, 1970)
Recollections of Rifleman Harris (Leo Cooper, 1970) editor
The Personal History of Samuel Johnson (Longmans, 1971)
Tower of London (Newsweek, 1971) "Wonders of Man" series
Edward: The Uncrowned King (Macdonald, 1972)
Versailles (Newsweek, 1972) "Wonders of Man" series
George IV. Prince of Wales, 1762-1811 Vol 1: (Longman, 1972)
George IV. Regent and King, 1811-1830 Vol 2: (Allen Lane, 1974)
The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (Allen Lane, 1974) reprinted by the Folio Society, 1998
A Soldier of the Seventy-First: The Journal of a Soldier in the Peninsular War (Leo Cooper, 1975) editor
The Illustrated London News: Social History of Victorian Britain (Angus and Robertson, 1975)
Edward VII: A Portrait (Allen Lane, 1976)
Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Queen Caroline; by Joseph Nightingale (Folio Society, 1978) editor
Disraeli and his World (Thames and Hudson, 1978)
The Great Mutiny: India, 1857 (Allen Lane, 1978), as Penguin Pocketbook: 1980, .
The Court of St James's: The Monarch at Work from Victoria to Elizabeth II (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979)
The French Revolution (Penguin, 1980) .
Greville's England: Selections from the Diaries of Charles Greville 1818-1860 (Folio Society, 1981) editor
Africa Explored: Europeans in the Dark Continent, 1769-1889 (Allen Lane, 1982)
Chateaux of the Loire (Newsweek, 1983) "Wonders of Man" series
The London Encyclopaedia with Ben Weinreb (Macmillan, 1983) later revised, with Julia and John Keay (3rd ed. 2010)
Rome: The Biography of a City (Viking, 1985)
Cities and Civilisations (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986) reprinted by the Folio Society, 2003
The English: A Social History (Grafton, 1987)
A Guide to Royal London (Pan Macmillan, 1987)
Venice: The Biography of a City (Grafton, 1988)
The Encyclopaedia of Oxford (Macmillan, 1988)
London's Churches assisted by Tessa Street with photographs by Martin Black (Queen Anne Press, 1988)
Redcoats and Rebels: The War for America, 1770-1781 (Grafton, 1990)
The Virgin Queen: The Personal History of Elizabeth I (Viking, 1990)
Captain Gronow: His Reminiscences of Regency and Victorian Life, 1810-60 (Kyle Cathie, 1991) editor
Florence: The Biography of a City (Viking, 1993)
Cavaliers & Roundheads: The English at War, 1642–1649 (HarperCollins, 1993)
The Story of England (Phaidon Press, 1994)
Nelson: A Personal History (Penguin, 1994)
No Ordinary Place: Radley College and the Public School System 1847–1997 (John Murray, 1997)
Wellington: A Personal History (HarperCollins, 1997)
George III: A Personal History (Penguin, 1998)
Queen Victoria: A Personal History (HarperCollins, 2000)
The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650-1744 (Viking, 2001)
Napoleon: His Wives and Women (HarperCollins, 2002)
Great Battles: Agincourt (Phoenix new edition 2003)
Disraeli: A Personal History (HarperCollins, 2004)
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431–1519 (Mariner Books, 2009)


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